Safe Handling of Medicines Foundation Face-to-Face / Virtual Classroom

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

▪ Describe the safe procedures for handling medicines

▪ Demonstrate how to administer medicines safely and effectively

▪ Explain how to use and maintain medicine records

▪ Recognise potential problems of medicines in use and how to avoid/overcome them

Course Content:

▪ Administration

▪ Storage

▪ Recording

▪ Disposal

▪ Covert administration

▪ Self-administration

▪ Homely remedies and over the counter medication

▪ The importance of dose timings

▪ How to use eye drops, patches, inhalers, creams etc.

▪ Understanding dosage instructions

▪ Basic hygiene when administering medicines

▪ Principles of a medicines policy

▪ Specialist tasks

▪ How to reduce medicines errors

▪ Reporting refusals, side effects and errors

▪ Expiry dates